Things often get slow at work, and when times are slow there are a number of websites that are frequented by myself, along with my co-workers. Facebook is probably the most-visited site in the entire world of student employees, particularly at BYU. Many are logged into facebook the entire time they are at work, taking periodical glances to see if anyone has "facebooked them" as the saying goes.
Another website that brings the office joy is wikipedia. This amazing site tells you everything. Today I performed a wikipedia search on President Cecil O. Samuelson, and it greatly enriched our current topic of conversation. (note that "wikipedia" is not yet a verb. Give it time...)Viewers are able to look up one topic, connect to a link on the topic's page, and spend hours of fun just weeding through the information in this online dictionary.
Lastly, google.com brought joy to the office today. We not only "googled" each other, but we put our settings in different languages. There are not only your common, everyday languages like English, Spanish, and French, but there are more bizzare languages included like Klingon, Bork, Bork, Bork, and last but not least, Elmer Fudd. Several minutes of fun were had experimenting with these different languages. A hint: if you find that you cannot find "English" in the list, go to Elmer Fudd, it is usually identifyable and one can find English from Elmer Fudd quite easily.
It is peculiar to me that we choose to write on each others' facebook wall rather than speak to each other, that we seek out each others' names on a google search engine rather than ask each simple questions about our lives. Wikipedia is perfectly explainable though. It is also odd to me that I am writing all this in a blog rather than telling it to you to your face. Technology truly has changed our world.
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For some reason, this made me laugh. And, I'm all by myself in the education building and people look at me weird. Thanks Andrea, thanks.
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